[Incidence of ocular congenital anomalies in clinical material]

The aim of the study was to analyse, basing on the clinical material of the years 1987-1992, the congenital ocular anomalies and to compare the results with the observations made 20 years ago. Among the total clinical material of 7333 examined patients in the age from 3 days to 18 years congenital anomalies, including high myopia, were found in 3882 cases (group A). There were 2201 boys and 1681 girls. Group B, without high myopia, comprised 2639 cases of congenital anomalies, 1539 boys and 1100 girls. It was established that the incidences of congenital retinal degenerations and optic nerve atrophy were now higher than in the 1970-s years. About 1/3 of cases with congenital anomalies were those with high myopia.